Girl Scouts begin cookie sales
Girls
Scouts began their traditional annual cookies sales Jan. 19. This year leaders
in the local troops will be not only be working to raise funds for their own
service projects, but also will be helping with the national campaign to send
cookies to U.S. military troops serving overseas.
Viewed
as an experience that teaches girls how to set personal and team goals, the annual
sales benefit individual Girl Scouts and Brownie troops and the local council.
Funds support day camps, service projects and troop activities.
Because
cookies from Girl Scouts are on the military service members’ “wish lists,”
Girls Scouts this year decided to participate in Operation Gratitude, a project
to send cookies and individual greetings to troops overseas.
Girl
Scouts are taking pre-orders with deliveries and booth sales to begin Feb. 29.
Girl
Scouts of California’s Central Coast serves nearly 12,000 girls in Santa Cruz,
Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. For
more information about ordering cookies from local troops, visit
www.girlscoutscc.org. or call 880-4217, ext. 202.
Operation Gratitude is a non-profit,
all volunteer organization that sends Care Packages of snack foods,
convenience, and entertainment items, to military troops deployed overseas. For
more information, visit www.opgratitude.com.